1. The whole pangolin-as-intermediary theory rests on one single sequenced pangolin SARS-CoV virus, published in Fall 2019 by Guangdong virologists, who were sampling pangolins that had been seized from smugglers that Spring. Nobody has ever found a pangolin virus like that againhttps://twitter.com/UngeheuerDarin/status/1401992628028297218 …
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6. After Corona hit, a small group of (mostly Chinese) papers started pointing to pangolins as a possible animal intermediary. The virus sequences they presented were all more or less ripped from the 2019 paper. To varying degrees they all obfuscated this.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.07.184374v2.full …
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7. Most would believe that the zoonotic (natural) hypothesis of Corona's origins requires an animal intermediary, to get the virus from bats to humans. Some might find it odd that the only evidence of such an intermediary was published a few months before the outbreak ...
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8. Other pangolin samples have turned up Coronaviruses, and even some SARS-related ones, but none with the anomalous spike protein.
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